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Quick definitions from WordNet (charge)
▸ noun: a impetuous rush toward someone or something ("The wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary")
▸ noun: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time ("This cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains")
▸ noun: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
▸ noun: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense ("He was arrested on a charge of larceny")
▸ noun: request for payment of a debt ("They submitted their charges at the end of each month")
▸ noun: a person committed to your care ("The teacher led her charges across the street")
▸ noun: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons ("The battery needed a fresh charge")
▸ noun: the price charged for some article or service ("The admission charge")
▸ noun: financial liabilities (such as a tax) ("The charges against the estate")
▸ noun: a special assignment that is given to a person or group ("His charge was deliver a message")
▸ noun: attention and management implying responsibility for safety
▸ noun: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence ("The newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving")
▸ noun: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something ("The judge's charge to the jury")
▸ noun: (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object ("Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge")
▸ noun: the swift release of a store of affective force
▸ verb: pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt ("Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?")
▸ verb: demand payment ("Will I get charged for this service?")
▸ verb: enter a certain amount as a charge ("He charged me $15")
▸ verb: saturate ("The room was charged with tension and anxiety")
▸ verb: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge ("I need to charge my car battery")
▸ verb: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on ("Charge a conductor")
▸ verb: set or ask for a certain price ("How much do you charge for lunch?")
▸ verb: instruct or command with authority ("The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem")
▸ verb: instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
▸ verb: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to ("He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend")
▸ verb: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against ("He charged me director with indifference")
▸ verb: make an accusatory claim ("The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased")
▸ verb: file a formal charge against ("The suspect was charged with murdering his wife")
▸ verb: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
▸ verb: direct into a position for use ("He charged his weapon at me")
▸ verb: fill or load to capacity ("Charge the wagon with hay")
▸ verb: place a heraldic bearing on ("Charge all weapons, shields, and banners")
▸ verb: lie down on command, of hunting dogs
▸ verb: give over to another for care or safekeeping
▸ verb: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to ("She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance")
▸ verb: attribute responsibility to ("The tragedy was charged to her inexperience")
▸ verb: provide with munition
▸ verb: move quickly and violently
▸ verb: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused ("The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")
▸ verb: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
▸ Also see charging
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to charge
▸ Usage examples for charge
▸ Idioms related to charge (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing charge
▸ Words that often appear near charge
▸ Rhymes of charge
▸ Invented words related to charge
▸ noun: a impetuous rush toward someone or something ("The wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary")
▸ noun: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time ("This cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains")
▸ noun: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
▸ noun: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense ("He was arrested on a charge of larceny")
▸ noun: request for payment of a debt ("They submitted their charges at the end of each month")
▸ noun: a person committed to your care ("The teacher led her charges across the street")
▸ noun: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons ("The battery needed a fresh charge")
▸ noun: the price charged for some article or service ("The admission charge")
▸ noun: financial liabilities (such as a tax) ("The charges against the estate")
▸ noun: a special assignment that is given to a person or group ("His charge was deliver a message")
▸ noun: attention and management implying responsibility for safety
▸ noun: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence ("The newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving")
▸ noun: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something ("The judge's charge to the jury")
▸ noun: (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object ("Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge")
▸ noun: the swift release of a store of affective force
▸ verb: pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt ("Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?")
▸ verb: demand payment ("Will I get charged for this service?")
▸ verb: enter a certain amount as a charge ("He charged me $15")
▸ verb: saturate ("The room was charged with tension and anxiety")
▸ verb: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge ("I need to charge my car battery")
▸ verb: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on ("Charge a conductor")
▸ verb: set or ask for a certain price ("How much do you charge for lunch?")
▸ verb: instruct or command with authority ("The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem")
▸ verb: instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
▸ verb: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to ("He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend")
▸ verb: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against ("He charged me director with indifference")
▸ verb: make an accusatory claim ("The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased")
▸ verb: file a formal charge against ("The suspect was charged with murdering his wife")
▸ verb: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
▸ verb: direct into a position for use ("He charged his weapon at me")
▸ verb: fill or load to capacity ("Charge the wagon with hay")
▸ verb: place a heraldic bearing on ("Charge all weapons, shields, and banners")
▸ verb: lie down on command, of hunting dogs
▸ verb: give over to another for care or safekeeping
▸ verb: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to ("She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance")
▸ verb: attribute responsibility to ("The tragedy was charged to her inexperience")
▸ verb: provide with munition
▸ verb: move quickly and violently
▸ verb: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused ("The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")
▸ verb: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
▸ Also see charging
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to charge
▸ Usage examples for charge
▸ Idioms related to charge (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing charge
▸ Words that often appear near charge
▸ Rhymes of charge
▸ Invented words related to charge